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Born at 318 ppm

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nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
But the sudden warming in the far upper atmosphere is going to result in anything but warmth. It is causing the #polarvortex winds to weaken, said Amy H. Butler, a meteorologist at the #noaa, & they could even reverse.

…These warming events…can trigger the most […]

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Why the polar vortex matters for our weather The polar vortex plays a key role in winter weather in the Northern Hemisphere. When the polar vortex is strong, cold air is trapped around the North Pole. But when it weakens, the cold air can spill south into the US mainland — like opening the freezer door. As a result, conditions are colder and snowier than normal.
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
…Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend #weather patterns & set the stage for a cold, snowy December across the Northern Hemisphere.

It will mean a dramatic swing in weather for parts of the #us that are currently simmering in record heat….

It could also be one of the […]
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masto.ai
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Delft was a vibe this morning!

#delft #rainbow #goodmorning #morning #morninglight #goldenhour
A canal in Delft. Picture taken from a bridge, looking at the gothic tower of the Oude Kerk (Old Church). The tower bathes in a golden morning light, and a rainbow is visible above it. Trees are bare. Cars and bikes are parked long the canal. Another canal in Delft. Again buildings in golden light with an even brighter rainbow visible. Canal next to train station of Delft. In the background, low clouds formed from water vapor from industry light up in a golden light, reflecting in the water. A bright double rainbow above it. A few cyclists on the wet bicycle lane. Another canal in Delft. This time it's the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) that is lit up in golden morning light, with the rainbow hitting the main tower of the church.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Well, so much for the that one for the kids! Off the Christmas list! 🤪

CNN: Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

#ai #toys
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
#uspol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee
screenshot of a post by rumiwithaview: I just watched a video of someone in my community being chased by ICE. Instant flashback: me in Iran, running from the morality police, scanning for an open door, a wall I could climb, a place to hide, that cold terror of what they'd do to u if they caught u. The same nightmare I fled is now a daily reality in the US.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Significant because this case, when Trump ordered certain Venezuelans deported from U.S., pursuant to Alien Enemies Act, is among those that may yet force the Roberts Court to squarely address an executive branch that utterly lawlessly disregards court orders. 2/
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
After all sorts of appellate proceedings, Judge Boasberg is restarting criminal contempt proceedings against Trump regime for flagrantly violating his orders in case of deportations of Venezuelans in the U.S […]
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mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
"Bevindt het hedendaagse laboratorium voor de wereldondergang zich nu misschien in #telaviv, wil ik vragen. En als de filosoof #walterbenjamin gelijk heeft en de geschiedenis slechts een aaneenschakeling van catastrofes zou zijn, betekent dat dan dat wij mensen gedwongen zijn van #genocide naar […]
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social.edu.nl
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..
A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Maybe the reason Trump is now agreeing to open up the Epstein files is that his apparatchiks at the "Justice" Dept have had enough time to complete their destruction of documents etc that would nail him, and/or forgery of ones implicating his enemies.
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
🧵

@malachy.bsky.social is a video journalist for The NYT

He does forensic reporting.

7 yrs ago, he & his team uncovered the details behind the Saudi-ordered murder of Khashoggi.

Below are the details on how they forensically pieced it together

Trump knows it. Repubs know it. Media know it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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touaregtweet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Dat. Geen dienstauto met chauffeur meer, van onze centen, maar gewoon terug in het vak bij het uitschot dat #pvv is. Waar hij #wilders een boerenlul vindt en #Wilders omgekeerd hem als lui en elitair bestempelt. #bosma
nadiabouras.bsky.social Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 2d
Het vooruitzicht dat Martin Bosma zijn status en privileges verliest en straks gewoon moet plaatsnemen tussen de overige losers in de fractie, waar Wilders als een mini-dictator de scepter zwaait en nul tegenspraak duldt, is de Schadenfreude waar ik intens van geniet.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy
"Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy #gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction"

#gazagenocide […]
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mastodon.scot
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
José Marichal has a new book: “You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem”

“In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?

This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for […]
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hachyderm.io
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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ananasparachute.turtleisland.social.ap.brid.gy
To make matters worse, not one other person stood up for her. Not one.
#jenniferjacobs #quietpiggy #epsteinfiles #trumplies #trumpisstillapedo
Alt-text: Smiling woman in front of a cityscape with overlaid text about journalists and presidential conduct. Transcribed Text: This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter Trump barked “quiet, quiet, piggy” at for asking about the Epstein files. Stop normalizing a president abusing reporters, especially women, because he’s terrified of a question. —Brian Allen
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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touaregtweet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
2/2 #logtenberg #vvd #nrc

👇 ❗
estherouwehand.bsky.social Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · 3d
Laten we deze ook nog maar ‘ns opnieuw bekijken.

Het smalen, grijnzen en knipogen naar Van Weel terwijl Moorman sprak wás al veelzeggend. Maar inmiddels weten we ook dat Hugo Logtenberg (bestuurs)functies had bij de VVD, maar dat verzwijgt op zijn LinkedIn-cv (en dat NRC dit allemaal prima vindt?).
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
As with many successful pedestrian people-streets in many other cities around the world, the idea of removing cars & trams from OSLO’s Karl Johans Gate was initially very controversial before the eventual transformation in the 1980s. But the prestigious shopping street & main city stroll flourished.
Before image with street filled with cars in central Oslo After image with street filled with people
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
When it comes to designing cities for biking and walking, Ghent Belgium may still not be as well known as Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Paris yet, but it’s one of the most inspiring cities in the world. I was honoured to do some work with them in 2019. Watch @streetfilms.bsky.social’s fantastic video:
Ghent Kicked Out the Cars So You Can Walk, Bike, Live & Thrive in the City (Velo-City 2024)
YouTube video by Streetfilms®
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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tmkdf.bsky.social
Never forget that the newest research in Germany shows that people were reluctant participants in the regime.

This is not to exonerate anyone. But it shows that fascist leaders don’t need approval for their actions. It is enough to have no organised opposition…
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
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mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @gargon@mastodon.social as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]
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mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government.

I make the case for why local law enforcement officers may need to arrest feds:

https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds/ […]
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mastodon.online
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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dutchy.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mstdn.social/@roelgrif/115558440183831644

"Alle kranten, behalve één column, laten drie belangrijke vragen liggen:

Waarom leidt een privé-appje tot een politieke val, terwijl vier jaar openlijke heks-retoriek richting Kaag nooit als breekpunt werd gezien?

Waarom wordt de rol van […]
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
RT @jasonhickel (on X) Striking new paper shows that bringing the entire world population up to decent-living standards would require only about 3% of existing global resource use. Think about the implications of this: Right now, at least 80% of humanity is deprived of decent-living standards. More than 2 billion people do not even have stable access to food. These are massive levels of deprivation. And it is *totally avoidable* We can ensure all 8 billion people have universal healthcare, good housing, education, nutritious food, sanitation systems, transit, clothing, refrigerators, freezers, necessary heating/cooling, mobile phones, internet, computers, etc... ...all of this with only 3% of existing global resource use. Specifically: 7% of existing material use, 1% of existing emissions, 2% of existing land use, and 2% of existing water use.
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM